How a technology portal synthesizes data to inform management of Ascension Island’s vast marine protected area On an otherwise jubilant day in 2019, Diane Baum had a concerning realization: The marine protected area (MPA) that she and her team had worked so hard to establish around Ascension Island, in the Atlantic Ocean between Angola and […]
A new enhanced public portal that tracks and visualizes vessels engaged in deep-sea mineral activities.
Track deep-sea mining vessels in near real time with the new Deep-Sea Mining Watch portal — transparency for our ocean’s future.
Dr. Michael Hirshfield oversees Oceana’s new offices in the Philippines, Canada and Brazil, and ensures that Oceana’s policy advocacy is solidly based on the latest scientific information. Throughout his long career, Dr. Hirshfield has worked on issues related to fisheries and aquatic ecosystems from a variety of viewpoints.
We were very pleased to complete a three day training session this month in Lima with the Peruvian Ministry of Production’s vessel surveillance division. It was an opportunity for us to share the latest developments on the Global Fishing Watch mapping platform and to get expert feedback from professionals in Peru’s fisheries sector. Since Peru’s public […]
Updates allow the analysis of vessel activities in greater detail and more realistic apparent fishing effort estimates near ports.
Fixed infrastructure detections from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 are now available in the data download portal.
Tim Hochberg Senior Machine Learning Engineer Phoenix, AZ Tim Hochberg leads the optical imagery vessel detection project, where Global Fishing Watch is inferring vessel presence in optical satellite imagery. Detecting vessels in satellite imagery enhances our knowledge of where boats are located globally, particularly in areas where automatic identification system (AIS) usage is low or […]
In the 23 February 2018 issue of Science, along with research partners at University of California Santa Barbara, National Geographic Pristine Seas, SkyTruth, Dalhousie University, Stanford University, and Google, we published a global analysis of fishing effort using AIS data. We have made our data on the vessel identity and fishing effort freely available. This post provide links to […]
Global Fishing Watch Map EXPLORE OUR MAP The Global Fishing Watch map is the first open-access online platform for visualization and analysis of vessel-based human activity at sea. Powered by satellite technology and machine learning, the map merges multiple types of vessel tracking data to provide a view of global human activity at sea, including […]
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